If I get to choose between having the M4 same recoil as Ak 74 or slightly stronger than Ak 74, i would rather choose the later. Having an M4 with more recoil make me feel like Im firing a more powerful projectile with velocity at 900 m/s and 1.900 J energy than the weaker 880 m/s projectile with only 1.400 J energy. 5.45x39mm is not marginally less powerful than the 5.56 NATO, it much much weaker than the 5.56, even the recoil force of 5.56 is twice stronger than of 5.45x39mm

Love Brits Medic with SUSAT so far. It really make people want to do Medic as Medic right now can ACTUALLY FIGHT BACK instead of stick around doing nothing until somewhat got shot, also the adding of SUSAT on rifle really make it feel " more " British, finally the dev agree to do something players have been asking over and over before

i can stay completely fine if they goes to the 2005, removed all the gripod but give us SUSAT & ACOG but i really don t like the way they used iron-sight in mixed with gripod, it look unnatural as ****
Completely agree with you, gripod + ironsight just useless

Many player has been complained so much about this, it just feel so unnatural to see British soldier used ironsight, i'm not gonna play squad on vanilla server again until they deceide to listen to their player and add the God damm optic for British soldier, i think it so selfish for the dev to act like this, i remember how people got hyped for the British soldier before they got released, everyone was all wishes for the Elcan or at least ACOG & SUSAT and here we got IRONSIGHT !!!

are you mad ? the recoil on the rifle right now is already feeling unnatural, giving the weight of the L85A2 is much heavy than the M4, the recoil should be more controllable even when bipod not deploy, what i suggest is reducing the bounciness, swaying of gun whenever shot taken, and for the foregrip is pretty much useless anyway if UK is on offensive side, as they alway on constant move.
I think the best option for UK is reducing recoil sway and added the SUSAT to all infantry weapon and only reserved high end optic like ACOG for limited used, and if that not consider balance to the dev, they can get taken the foregrip away if they want. It really annoying to see brit infantry fighting with no optic

Right now, Brit infantry squad is very different than other conventional in term of firepower. I known that the devs want to created diversion in the game by removing the essential equipment that produce the most firepower other conventional factions relied in ( optic GPMG ) and replaced it with optical grenadier for Brit and i say this is not a fair trade and brit need something to compensate for that :
Optical on grenadier indeed is a great thing to have, but that does not make grenadier in any kind equal to that amount of firepower and suppression provided by the GPMG, the optic does help grenadier players in spotting target but for the range adjustment, you still need to do it on your own, and this need a lot of practice to get experienced on judging distance to target on different terrain. A grenadier will need longer time to accurately engage target while with the machine-gunner, as long as you set your bipod down, you are clear to go. Currently, in most conventional forces vs conventional forces scenario, most US & RU squad i seen will not even bothered to pick AT kit, they have their vic to deal with enemy armor already, instead they will focus on maximising their firepower against enemy infantry forces. An optical GPMG can effectively engaged target far beyond 500m and even more effective than the maskman in suppression and delaying enemy advance
The l86 LSW is never near that of a LMG, it ammunition capacity is lower than the RPK by 15 rounds, and LSW gunner only carry with them 270 rounds ( 9 mags ) compare to 540 rounds carry by rpk 74 gunner ( 12 mags ). The SUSAT is also not that comparable to the high tech sight used by RU and US (wider fov, illumination, higher power magnification, incorporated ballistic compensation )
It just immersion breaking... I can understand support role like AT, crewman and medic don't need an optic but i never seen any british infantry go to war without optical device...

or maybe we return to the good old day of v11 test, with susat being standard issue and ACOG with foregrip in limited, i don t think that would be a balance problem, SUSAT is not a good optic compare to russian 1P29 (wider FOV and have ballistic compensation ) and even worst than the ACOG and 1P78 ( tritum illuminate + ballistic compensate + better FOV ), having a SUSAT for brit just make the gameplay much more immersived and better, brit having L85 with SUSAT is the same as RU with red dot, it just a slighty buff and not affecting gameplay that much, even then with RU having red dot, i still prefer the old way ironsight, at least you can range finding with that

Honestly, i would rather have optic + non foregrip bipod rather than an ironsight with foregrip bipod. We may not good at CQB as the Yank with their foregrip but at least we got our lovely optic
ironsight only ranged at 200m max make it hard to duel with other non optic rifleman of other factions, believe me. I frequently participated in Squadops and i know this. It kind of funny to see an item used to help increase long-range shot accuracy being equipped for a short-range platform...

hey man,totally agree with you on this, i agree with the dev moved back in v11 test when they allow brit to have unlimited rifleman with l85 + SUSAT. Honestly saying, i would rather have Brit come with optic and non foregrip bipod rather than an ironsight with foregrip bipod. It kind of funny to see an item used to help increase long-range shot accuracy being equipped for a short-range platform...

hey man,totally agree with you on this, i agree with the dev moved back in v11 test when they allow brit to have unlimited rifleman with l85 + SUSAT. Honestly saying, i would rather have Brit come with optic and non foregrip bipod rather than an ironsight with foregrip bipod. It kind of funny to see an item used to help increase long-range shot accuracy being equipped for a short-range platform...

I really dislike the change for the Brit, back when we still in the test, brit infantry got the priviledge to have more optical equipped rifleman in their squad to compensate for the loss of optic GPMG, and now the offical release removed what is essential for the brit to fight against other conventional forces...

Yes, im not ****ing forget all of those, and i recognised that it not equal to that of an optic GPMG.Grenadier need experienced player to work effectively, the optic just help with target identification, you still have to do the range measuring by yourself, and how long or how easy it took for you to do that depend on different terrain, and possibly you will have to wasted 3-4 rounds to get an accurate measuring, while with GPMG, you only need a fcking bipod down to get it work, and the L86 "WHY THE **** EVERYONE ALWAY SAID IT IS AN LMG, THE POOR THING DON T HAVE HIGH CAPACITY MAG, AND THE GUNNER CARRY EVEN LESS AMMUNITION THAN THE RUSSIAN RPK 74M, NOT TO MENTIONED THE OLD SYSTEM OPTIC WHICH GAVE YOU SMALL FOV AND LOW MAGNIFY"

well, in my experienced, US squad and RU squad would overwhelm Brit by their MG firepower.It not like it decreasing a squad mobility that much, US and RU GPMG now come with optic which make it possible for a machine gunner ability to stay stationary at one place for longer time and start put fire down range for squad to advance. We didn t even bother to pick LAT anymore, we already got vehicle there to deal with enemy armor, most RU, US squad right now would just focus on maximize their firepower against enemy infantry

i still don t know why people like to call the LSW is the LMG, 30 rounds per mag and LSW gunner only carry 8 mags with him ? Compare these number to a RPK 74 of RU ( 45 rounds per mag and 15 mags carry ) and "maybe" you see how much different in term of firepower, not to mentioned RU optic is much more clearer, wider Field of view and have it own ballistic compensation

with V11 come out, you can have as many as 4 GPMGs on one team, and these guy can perfectly start putting down fire at 400m above and enjoy the ****-fest, and it even get worst at map with wide open field....

just that u don t need an experienced player to lock down a whole sector with his GPMG, huh ?
Seriously, even with the GL with optic, only people with alot of practice can judge the distance and start ranging perfectly, and even then, the time for GL to start engaging a target is much longer than having a GPMG and spray it at enemy direction

I really dislike the change for the Brit, back when we still in the test, brit infantry got the priviledge to have more optical equipped rifleman in their squad to compensate for the loss of optic GPMG, and now the offical release removed what is essential for the brit to fight against other conventional forces...